# DEXTER CORPORATION
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1993 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `28288`
- **Case Number:** 05-1993-0537
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $51K
- **Cost recovery:** $0
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- DEXTER (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

BACKGROUND:  U.S. EPA HEADQUARTERS FILED AN ADMINISTRATIVE   COMPLAINT AGAINST DEXTER ON DECEMBER 16, 1992, PROPOSING A   $226,875 CIVIL PENALTY ( HEADQUARTERS COMPLAINT ) AND A      REGION 5 FILED AND ADMINISTRATIVE COMPLAINT ON OCTOBER 7,    1993, PROPOSING A $76,300 CIVIL PENALTY ( REGION 5           COMPLAINT ).  THE COMPLAINTS INVOLVE CHEMICAL SUBSTANCES     OVER WHICH WHOSE IDENTITIES RESPONDENT PLACED CLAIMS OF TSCA CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS INFORMATION.  THE HEADQUARTERS         COMPLAINT ALLEGED THAT DEXTER VIOLATED SECTION 5 OF TSCA BY  MANUFACTURING CERTAIN CHEMICALS FOR NON-EXEMPT COMMERCIAL    PURPOSES WITHOUT HAVING SUBMITTED THE REQUIRED               PREMANUFACTURE NOTIFICATIONS ( PMNS ) IN A TIMELY FASHION.   THE REGION 5 COMPLAINT ALLEGED THAT DEXTER VIOLATED SECTION  5 OF TSCA BY FILING FALSE OR UNTIMELY NOTICES OF             COMMENCEMENT OF MANUFACTURE FOR CERTAIN CHEMICALS, AND       VIOLATED SECTION 12(B) OF TSCA BY FAILING TO TIMELY FILE     NOTIFICATIONS OF EXPORT OF CERTAIN CHEMICALS.  REGION 5 AND  HEADQUARTERS COSOLIDATED THE COMPLAINTS, AND SETTLED THE     CASES WITH A SINGLE CACO, FOR PURPOSES OF SUPPORTING         LARGER-SCALE TSCA COMPLIANCE AUDIT AND SEPS THAN WOULD HAVE  BEEN POSSIBLE UNDER THE INDIVIDUAL COMPLAINTS.

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